VANCOUVER (July 30, 2012) – Arcana Comics is very excited to announce that its partnership with ComiXology to release both “Digital Firsts” and “ComiXology Exclusives” is a SMASH!

For the last month and a half, Arcana has released titles weekly through ComiXology, embracing the medium and providing titles to ComiXology exclusively before their official print release, sometimes weeks and often months before their perspective print releases. As a result, Arcana fans and new readers are flocking to Arcana’s titles, to read both new releases and a lot of our back catalog!

Take a look below at some of our recent releases and give them a try yourself! With single issue pricing ranging from $0.99 to $1.99, you can’t miss! Our full graphic novel prices also can’t be beat!

In a colonial village outside of NYC, Misha and her fiance, Daren, seek an escape from the fast pace of the city. As they settle in, Misha becomes withdrawn, suffering from bad dreams and depression. When Daren brings his friends to the house to “shake out the cobwebs,” little does he know he is setting into motion events started hundreds of years ago with the original occupants of the house, the Willam Family. Not only did the ill-fated Willam family die in the house one cold winter, but the house has developed a history of female occupants committing suicide. The friends must solve the mystery of the house before the Willam Family ghosts pick them off one by one.

QUOTES:
COMICMONSTERS.COM - “A ghost story that will make your blood run cold.”MIKE CAREY - “A stark, powerful ghost story told with real verve and conviction.”BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM – “The Evil Tree is exactly what a classic ghost story should be, Hendrix and Thollin capture all the elements of the genre with stunning execution. This is a perfect Halloween tale that’s bound to send shivers down your spine.”COMICBOOKRESOURCES.COM – “The Evil Tree is genuinely haunting… even scary…”SEQUENTIALTART.COM – “The Evil Tree will remind you of why you loved the movie The Evil Dead, with significantly less tree rape. More dead kids though.”

PIXIES (Issue 1 – 6/20/12, Issue 2 – 7/4/12, Issue 3 – 8/1/12, Issue 4 – 9/5/12)
COMIXOLOGY LINK: CLICK HERE
PRICE: $1.99 per issue
Joe Beck is an auto mechanic with the worst luck in the world. Joe’s been a walking disaster plagued with comedic situations where simply nothing goes right. Since the age of sixteen, Joe’s never won a bet, has been stung more times than George W. has with late night comics and his allergies have introduced him to every hospital employee within a sixty-mile radius. In Annie Hall, Woody Allen divides everyone into the Horrible and the Miserable. Joe unfortunately falls into both categories. He must now defeat the Pixies Curse in order to get back the girl of his dreams.

THE PRAETORIAN Graphic Novel – Release date 7/4/12
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PRICE: $5.99
PAGES: 141The island kingdom of Desperian has long been ruled by the dark wizard, Zoranthar, and his ruling class of loyalists. The nobles of the land have long held to an imperative law – blood in the arena keeps blood off the streets – and cadres of gladiators entertain the masses as temples of slaughter. When slavers deliver Valoriss Bladesong into the ranks of the gladiators, her path will bring her to the doorstep of Zoranthar and challenge him for the destiny of Desperian. The Praetorian is an action adventure tale of sword and sorcery, honor and courage, good and evil, revenge, and life and death.

THE INVENTOR (Issue 1 – 6/20/12, Issue 2 – 6/20/12, Issue 3 – 7/4/12, Issue 4 – 8/1/12, Issue 5 – 9/5/12, Issue 6 – 10/3/12)
COMIXOLOGY LINK: CLICK HEREPRICE: $0.99 per issue
The Inventor is the story of how one man stood against the goliaths of industry and changed the world with nothing but his mind, passion, and vision for a better humanity. At the end of the 19th century, during a time when inventors were known as wizards and corporations considered their kingdoms, emerged an extraordinary league of gentlemen who shaped the modern world with their minds, money and machines. Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, J.P. Morgan, Guglielmo Marconi, Mark Twain, Lord Kelvin, Swami Vivekananda and others stood at the helm of the ship as the perfect storm was approaching. At the eye of the storm stood TESLA, a mystic inventor whose genius bordered insanity as he blurred the lines between magic and science. His ideas and inventions were so progressive that he catalyzed the second industrial revolution giving birth to the Electrical Era. Yet despite his genius, passion and impact on humanity, his on-going battle with Edison allowed others to make great fortunes on his inventions leaving him penniless, alone and forgotten…until now.

Core mining, the deadliest job in the galaxy, draws only the bravest, or craziest, workers around. Bumping up to asteroids, typically propelling at astronomical speeds towards distant stars, the miners harvest minerals essential to interstellar travel and commerce. Close quarters, dangerous conditions, and less than a half inch of polymer sheath stand between them and swift oblivion. When the Harvest Moon stumbles upon a goldmine dangerously close to a star, the last thing they expect to find is an ancient alien race preparing to hatch an infestation throughout the system. Armed with mining tools and sour attitudes, Captain Cyrus Layne and his crew must survive the horrors of space and an unfamiliar enemy to escape with their lives. It’s Deadliest Catch meets Armageddon and Aliens in a dystopian future.

CHAMPIONS OF THE WILD WEIRD WEST (Issue 1 – 7/11/12, Issue 2 – 7/25/12, Issue 3 – 8/8/12, Issue 4 – 9/5/12, Issue 5 – 9/26/12)
COMIXOLOGY LINK: CLICK HEREPRICE: $0.99 per issue
The honor of a samurai, the mysticism of the Native American Culture, and a whole heck of a lot of Old West Action. When a fallen samurai is drawn to the United States to save his wife-to-be and her father, he is drawn into a plot much more complex than a simple rescue. Meeting up with an adventurer, his Indian financial advisor, a mercenary, and a former priest, they set off on a quest to save the West from the strange and unimaginable. Zombie Indians, mystical beings, and mad science are just a few of they must face on their quest to save themselves, those they love, and the whole of the Old West.

John Henry, a former slave, wasn’t about to let some new-fangled steam hammer replace his ability to earn an honest wage as a steel driving man. He’d beat that machine, or die with his hammer in his hand. We all know the outcome of that legendary contest. In this alternate history, however, John doesn’t die in his heroic effort, but instead slips into a coma, only to awaken to his worst nightmare. A robotic uprising has occurred, and a new age has dawned – The Steam Age. Now, the only thing that can free the human race from the very machines they’ve created is John and his hammer. “John Henry: The Steam Age” is an exciting re-imagining of American folk hero John Henry in a SteamPunk setting.

INTRINSIC (Issue 1 – 5/5/12, Issue 2 – 7/18/12, Issue 3 – 8/15/12, Issue 4 – 9/19/12)
COMIXOLOGY LINK: CLICK HEREPRICE: $0.99 per issue (ISSUE 1 is FREE!!!)
The honor of a samurai, the mysticism of the Native American Culture, and a whole heck of a lot of Old West Action. When a fallen samurai is drawn to the United States to save his wife-to-be and her father, he is drawn into a plot much more complex than a simple rescue. Meeting up with an adventurer, his Indian financial advisor, a mercenary, and a former priest, they set off on a quest to save the West from the strange and unimaginable. Zombie Indians, mystical beings, and mad science are just a few of they must face on their quest to save themselves, those they love, and the whole of the Old West.